Nishina Akiko Quotes

I can give myself to her
In her dreams
Whispering her own poems
In her ear as she sleeps beside me. ~ Akiko Yosano

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician. ~ Anne Akiko Meyers

She suggests, too, that our capacity for intimate relationships can depend on having this deep core of private awareness; and that acknowledging our unknown and unseen selves, and offering these up only when and if we choose, is essential to our ability to engage in close relationships. Valuing interior experience is vital to developing a sense of self, and how we reveal ourselves to the outside world has everything to do with how we stay out of view when we need to. ~ Akiko Busch

Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home. ~ Akiko Busch

I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers. ~ Anne Akiko Meyers

Without returning...
O my feelings
In this gathering darkness of spring,
And against my koto
My tangled, tangled hair. ~ Akiko Yosano

Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially doors through garages, architects keep designing houses with ceremonial front doors that are nowhere near any car or driveway. ~ Akiko Busch

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet. ~ Akiko Busch

I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring! ~ Anne Akiko Meyers

Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today. ~ Scott Yanow

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question. ~ Anne Akiko Meyers

Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble. ~ Anne Akiko Meyers

I'm not a habitual practitioner of the art of face-painting. ~ Akiko Higashimura

Gently, I open
the door to eternal
mystery, the flowers
of my breasts cupped,
offered with both my hands. ~ Akiko Yosano